50 Breakthroughs Set the Agenda for Research into Global Dev...
Fifty years after the term “intermediate technology” came to describe a nascent category of engineering and design, the field...
Fifty years after the term “intermediate technology” came to describe a nascent category of engineering and design, the field...
Communities in rural Kenya are still heavily dependent on wood fuel and other biomass for their basic energy needs. Reliance on biomass can lead to health and environmental deterioration:...
Over the past seven years more than 100 research projects at the Co-operative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living, in collaboration with industry across Australia, have pondered a very...
Growing up in India, I was fortunate enough to have a piped supply of municipal water in my home. I was able to get a glass of water to...
Editor’s note: This profile of an engineer is a contribution to Engineering for Change courtesy of the international infrastructure and development consultancy SMEC Holdings, a member of the Surbana Jurong...
Less than two years after China banned most imports of scrap material from abroad, many of its neighbors are following suit. On May 28, 2019, Malaysia’s environment minister announced...
About 90 percent of USAID’s water priority countries are conflict-affected or fragile. In 2018, over 60 million people around the world were affected by more than 280 natural disasters. Effective water...
The world’s food production is in jeopardy because the fertile layer of soil that people depend on to plant crops is...
Solar-powered water pumps have officially entered the mainstream. Stanley Black & Decker, the multinational conglomerate widely known for its...
India has almost achieved the historic goal of connecting every household to the electricity grid. The next challenge is...
Engineers often run into the same problem when creating new products designed to make a positive impact: unintended consequences....
Engineering for Change follows up with the talented graduates of our Research Fellowship to learn how they apply the...
Harsh Vyas foregoes the long flights that engineers in global development often take before they can test essential technologies in...
Harsh Vyas is a graduate of Engineering for Change’s Research Fellowship program during which he researched products that meet...
Few advanced academic programs offer a formal education in social entrepreneurship. The reason may be as simple as the...
The inaugural issue of Demand: ASME Global Development Review published one of the early case studies of SWEET Sensors...
Though the amount of freshwater on Earth has remained more or less the same, a rapidly increasing global population...
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